John UpdikeA collection of 24 posts

Wisdom

Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency...

Truth

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself like a woman who ha...

Sports

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players b...

Society

The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the ma...

Respect

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.

Religion

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of relig...

Religion

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Poetry

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sa...

Patience

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight...

Morning

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to...